Ben Wallace

Woodbine To Honour Fallen Horses

January 06, 2016

The fire at Classy Lane Stables, which took the lives of 43 horses, has had a deep and dramatic impact on Ontario’s horse racing community. The Thursday, January 7 card of Standardbred racing at Woodb...

Jamieson On Shock, Devastation

January 06, 2016

It is hard to find horsemen that are more savvy than Ben Wallace and Jody Jamieson when it comes to speaking with the media. They are impeccable. The duo has been handed the tough task of having to ar...

Horsepeople Mobilizing After Fire

January 06, 2016

"It's not just their livelihood: it's their partners and their family. Those horses become their heart and soul… It's beyond heart-wrenching. It's tragic. Very tragic. It feels like they've lost a fam...

More Support Pledged To Fire Victims

January 05, 2016

The Ontario horse racing industry is less than 24 hours removed from the most devastating barn fire in recent memory, and some of the industry’s most high profile members have announced that they are ...

Wallace Devastated By Blaze

January 05, 2016

“It’s gone. I have nothing. I have nothing. I don’t even have a stopwatch. Nothing. Anything I owned going forward, as far as my profession, is gone.”

Update: Tragic Fire At Classy Lane

January 05, 2016

A barn fire at Classy Lane Training Centre in Puslinch, Ont. started at roughly 11 p.m. on Monday, January 4 and claimed the lives of more than 40 horses. Trot Insider can confirm the names of the 39 ...

The North America Cup Dark Horse?

"Any luck at all in either race —- if he could have zigged when he zagged —- he would have won both of them. Instead of being 20-1, he could be 2-1."

Calling It How He Sees It

In the following excerpts from an hour-long interview, horseman Ben Wallace pulls no punches as he strives to, ‘be real’ and demand change in an industry he finds resistant to the type of outside-the-...

Wallace Discusses ‘The Apprentice’

Even though Ben Wallace took some time to discuss Apprentice Hanover this week, the conditioner is hoping that the streaking son of Somebeachsomewhere continues to speak for himself courtesy of his pe...

Honours For Apprentice Hanover

January 04, 2014

After having his summer "ruined," trainer Ben Wallace's patience is seemingly paying off with pacer Apprentice Hanover.

Wallace Discusses Yoselin Seelster

Ben Wallace watched Yoselin Seelster post a runner-up finish in the July 1 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Series season opener at Mohawk Racetrack, and when the resident of Milton, Ont. heard the two-year-...

Can 'Apprentice' Become The Master?

"We drew inside them all so we drew inside the speed and it puts us in the race. If you draw outside the speed, it makes it that much more difficult to get yourself positioned early."